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The Sixers, not much of a player in free agency, will use the amnesty clause on forward Elton Brand, owed $18.2 million in the final year of his contract, and they reached agreement in principle to sign free-agent guard Nick Young to a one-year, $6 million deal, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
The amnesty clause allows the final year of Brand's contract to come off of the Sixers' salary cap. Teams below the salary cap will be permitted to bid for Brand's services. The Sixers will pick up whatever the difference is that the team that signs Brand reaches an agreement with the player to pay him.
If no team picks Brand up, he will become an unrestricted free agent and can sign with any team.
Young, 6-7, is an athletic player who should help the Sixers at the offensive end, where they struggled. He averaged 14 points last season with Washington and the Clippers.
Neither deal can be consummated until July 11.


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Here's a shot of some Hanzified, Mandarinized English I recently came across. Qi?okèlì (???) is of course a well-established loan word, from the English "chocolate" (though here the English is given in the more Japanese-English form of choco, as befits a Japanese donut chain store in Taiwan). ?uf?ixi?ng (???) is a rendering of "old fashioned." Although the "old" is missing from the English above, it can be seen in both of the tags pictured below.
Bái k?k? ?uf?ixi?ng (??????) and yuán wèi ?uf?ixi?ng (?????).
And if that's not enough to fill you up with Hanzified English, perhaps try a piece of B?shìdùn pài (????), i.e., "Boston [cream] pie."


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Today, 14.5 million children in America, nearly 1 in 5, are poor, more than two-thirds living in working families. The burden of poverty falls disproportionately on minority children, with nearly 1 in 3 Black and nearly 1 in 3 Latino children affected compared to 1 in 8 White children.
Poor children lag behind their peers in many ways beyond income; they are less healthy, trail in emotional and intellectual development, and do not perform as well in school. The challenges that poor children face accumulate and interact, casting long shadows throughout their lives. Every year that we keep children in poverty costs our nation half a trillion dollars in lost productivity, poorer health and increased crime.
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Little Minions: Graebor
A powerful patrician in his homeland, Graebor holds sway over his fellow countrymen of the proud Waug race.
With a family tree where every branch blooms aristocracy, there is a certain expectation for the sons and daughters of this bloodline.
The family credo is behave as if you hold power, and power is yours.
Though not officially in a position of authority, Graebor and his ancestors have always had (and sometimes threatened to sever) the ear of army commanders and royalty. Crossing Graebor or disagreeing with him publicly is the equivalent of signing one's own death warrant both socially and, if rumours are to be believed, in the literal sense as well.
As the current eldest male, Graebor is the head of the family. Persuasive, cold, cunning, and outwardly calm, he projects unshakeable leadership. Rarely does one see even a glimpse of the restrained rage undulating beneath his skin, behind his eyes.
But it's there.
In the tilt of his head.
In the silence of a pause.
Waiting to be released.
Wonderful detail!
His face has the appearance of a very annoyed owl:)
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DIY done right can be amazing. Such was the case at Gabby's bat mitzvah, where Mom put on the designer's hat, and turned out fashion themed decor that could easily come out of magazine. Hot off the runway, the bat mitzvah had plenty of bling and lots of sass, all done by hand. Photography by Lasting Memories Photography.
Gabby reads from the Torah, an important step and a proud moment for her parents and family.
Fashion Bat Mitzvah Party Theme – Pink & Zebra Color Scheme
Gabby has a passion for fashion, and Mom wanted to surround her girl with inspiration. The table centerpieces were dolled up mannequins in flower tops with tulle skirts.
Bat Mitzvah Logo – Inspired by Juicy CoutureGabby's logo is inspired by an of-the-moment brand, Juicy Couture. Perhaps one day she'll need to design a logo for her own brand. She should definitely consult Mom.
The zebra print gives the decor and favor bags a definite zing.
As does the crystal bling! The rhinestone trim gives a sophisticated touch to the fun and whimsical theme. Gabby had a fashion-inspired sign-in book, along with a….
Mannequin Dress Form Sign-In Board
Guests could write their well-wishes on the mannequin, a great keepsake for the bat mitzvah girl.
The candle lighting display is a standout, featuring a huge "G" initial of hot pink flowers with blinged-out centers.
The party gets underway with the cake, candle lighting ceremony, and dancing the Hora. Gabby and all her friends are having a blast.
High Fashion Candy BuffetEveryone goes home with treats from this very hip and fashionable candy bar, complete with some very couture mannequins.
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AICPA Honors Jeremy Dillard with the Maximo Mukelabai Award
Award Presented at AICPA E.D.G.E. Conference
August 8, 2013
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Austin, Texas (August 8, 2013) – The American Institute of CPAs has named Jeremy Dillard, CPA, Partner, Rivera, Jamjian & Dillard, LLP, winner of the Maximo Mukelabai Award. Dillard was recognized for his dedication to the advancement of the accounting profession and his volunteer work within his community in California.
Donny Shimamoto, CPA, CGMA, CITP, Founder & Managing Director, Intraprise TechKnowlogies LLC presented the award at the AICPA's E.D.G.E. Conference for leadership development in Austin, Texas. Shimamoto was honored with the inaugural Maximo Mukelabai award last year.
"A talented author and speaker, Jeremy has devoted his time and energy into projects which have helped advance the profession," said Jeannie Patton, AICPA Vice President, Academics, Professional Pathways and Inclusion. "His extensive commitment to volunteer work in his community, as well as his service to the AICPA and the California Society of CPAs, embody the values the Maximo Mukelabai award represents."
Dillard has served the accounting profession through his work with the AICPA as a current member of the governing Council and the Technical Issues Committee. He has previously volunteered for the Examinations FAR Committee and served as a technical reviewer for the AICPA's IFRS Certificate. Dillard has contributed to multiple AICPA publications, including Save Wisely, Spend Happily. Additionally, he is currently a member of the California Society of CPAs Governing Council and was recently appointed to CalCPA's Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards committee.
"I am incredibly honored to receive the 2013 Maximo Mukelabai Award. Maximo set a standard of professionalism that extends beyond providing client services to also include making a difference that impacts the community as well as the profession," said Dillard.
In addition to his work for the profession, Dillard has been very active in the Los Angeles community – volunteering his time for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses since 2000 and East Los Angeles YMCA since 2006. Dillard was recognized by the U.S. Congress for his volunteer work on projects to provide assistance to low-income families during the holidays, as well as his work with the Pasadena Special Olympics. In addition, he has received the Presidential Service Award from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce in both 2000 and 2003 and has been recognized by the City of Los Angeles for his volunteer efforts.
"My involvement as a volunteer with the AICPA and CalCPA, as well as with the Pasadena Tournament of Roses and East Los Angeles YMCA have been fantastic," said Dillard. "These activities have been very rewarding to me both professionally and personally, and I hope to continue them for many years to come."
The Maximo Mukelabai recognizes a young CPA who personifies an unwavering commitment as demonstrated through their successful practices, involvement and contributions for the interest of the accounting profession.
The primary criteria used to judge nominations for the award are:
- Demonstrates passion and eagerness to encourage and pique students' interest in accounting as a career
- Contributes recommendations and best practices towards improving processes and/or activities
- Performance in committee and/or other volunteer activities that relate to the engagement and advancement of the profession
- Involvement in community-based organizations to improve the lives of citizens.
Mukelabai was a member of the inaugural class of the AICPA Leadership Academy and the youngest chair of the North Carolina Association of CPAs board of directors. Tragically, his life ended abruptly at the age of 36. The AICPA established the award in 2011 as a tribute to Maximo's legacy.
Peers, AICPA staff, employer and state CPA societies submitted nominations for the annual award. The AICPA's Young CPA Network Committee then reviewed all qualified nominations and determined the winner.
Those with questions on the nomination process may firstname.lastname@example.com. The application period for next year's award will open in early 2014.


text: A signal is any event, innovation, disruption or local pattern that points to a larger shift on the horizon. Individually, signals may appear to be minor fluctuations. But taken together, they can form the heart of significant new trends. Identifying, aggregating, and interpreting signals is thus a critical task of horizon scanning. We welcome you to rate these signals' potential impact on the poverty horizon.


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Gemini Probes Galaxy Evolution a Billion Years After the Big Bang
March 8, 2004
Spectacular progress has been made lately on the population of galaxies at greater than 90% look back time in cosmic history. The standard approach when identifing very distant galaxies is to obtain deep imaging in several color bands and to look for the "drop-out" objects. Young galaxy spectra are generally dominated by the emission line of hydrogen Lyman-alpha (121.6 Angstroms). The flux on the blue side of Lyman-alpha is highly depressed because of absorption in the intervening intergalactic medium, while the red side has a weak stellar continuum. The latter may be detected with only very deep spectroscopic exposures like those done with GMOS-N&S using the nod and shuffle technique. For high redshift objects, the drop-out effect translates into ta non-detection in optical colors such as r, i, but detection in the z, or J and H band in the near infrared (see Figure 1).
The Gemini Lyman Alpha at Reionisation Era (GLARE) survey aims to obtain extremely deep spectra of very faint high-redshift star-forming galaxies, selected via i - z color from the HST/UDF survey. The present discovery is from the first 7 hours of spectroscopy obtained with GMOS-S at Gemini South. The total exposure time, when completed, will be 125 hours, producing extremely deep spectra.
The first GLARE objects show narrow Lyman alpha lines characteristic of star-forming galaxies and do not show Active Galaxy Nuclei emission. The rest-frame ultraviolet spectra of the objects are likely to be dominated by star forming. This means that these galaxies are "normal" distant star forming galaxies known as Lyman Break Galaxies.
More details can be found in the original paper by Elizabeth Stanway, Karl Glazebrook, Andrew J. Bunker, Roberto G. Abraham, Isobel Hook, James Rhoads, Patrick J. McCarthy, Brian Boyle, Matthew Colless, David Crampton, Warrick Couch, Inger Jørgensen, Sangeeta Malhotra, Rick Murowinski, Kathy Roth, Sandra Savaglio and Zlatan Tsvetanov: "Three Ly-alpha Emitters at z ~ 6: Early GMOS/Gemini Data from the GLARE Project", The Astrophysical Journal, 604:L13-L16, 2004 March 20.
One related study of particular interest is the recent paper by R. Pelló, D. Shaerer, J. Richard, J.-F. Le Borgne and J.-P. Kneib, "ISAAC/VLT observations of a lensed galaxy at z = 10.0" Astronomy & Astrophysics, vol. 416, issue 3, p. L 35.


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The Henry and Stark Health Department announces that November is
National Home Health Care Month.
The Henry and Stark Health Department announces that November is
National Home Health Care Month. The theme for this year's observance is
"Because There Is No Place Like Home." Pam Bennett, RN Director of Home
Health Services with the Health Department, believes this is a great way to
focus attention on the thousands of dedicated professionals who have made it
their work to enable people to stay in the comfort of their own home and get
needed medical and personal cares.
"Every year National Home Health Month offers us an opportunity to
remind each of us of the importance of these services to our aging and
recuperating population. Especially, with the proposed health care
regulatory changes and their possible affect on client services."
Founded in 1966, the Health Department has been providing home health
services to this area's homebound patients and their families for over 45
In honor of National Home Health Care Month the Health Department notes
the following facts:
* The average Home Care Visits costs Medicare $150; the average hospital day
costs $1,500.
* Nearly 12 million Americans now rely on Home Health Care. Medicare covers
only 3.5 million of them.
* Home Care keeps families together.
* Home Care promotes healing and prevents infection.
* Statistics show home health patients get better faster in their own homes
* Home Care improves quality of life and has been proven to extend life.
* Home Care is the cost-effective health care solution.
Health Department home health services include: skilled nursing and
home health aide visits; homecare assistant services; and speech, physical,
and occupational therapies.
The Health Department still believes "that there's no place like home"
when you're recuperating from an illness or injury. Even with all the
challenges of Medicare and insurance companies, the Health Department home
health staff remains committed to providing quality home health care, as
we've done for so many years. To arrange home health services, call the
Health Department at (309) 852-0197 (Henry) or 852-3115 (Stark). Or, for
more information visit our website at www.henrystarkhealth.com or find us on
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February 13, 2013 10:30 ET
NEWTON, MA--(Marketwire - Feb 13, 2013) - Questex Hospitality + Travel has named Nick Diligente business development manager for the North America Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference (NATHIC), part of the International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF) summit series.
Diligente, who is responsible for NATHIC logistics, marketing and sales, joins Questex after four years with New York-based Penton Media Inc., which he most recently served as West Coast sales manager, overseeing accounts in 26 states, Canada and Europe.
He joined Penton as an inside sales and marketing manager and events coordinator, responsible for managing national accounts and selling print and digital marketing programs. He helped create and manage two nationally recognized hotel industry conferences, The Midwest Lodging Investors Summit and The Lifestyle/Boutique Hotel Development Conference.
"As we prepare to set the stage for this year's fifth-annual NATHIC with some exciting new developments and programming, Nick Diligente's role and expertise will be invaluable," said Marilyn McHugh, Questex Hospitality + Travel vice president of global events.
Earlier in his career, Diligente was a vice president and consultant at Spadichi Inc.'s Hillside Party Center in Cleveland, where he oversaw business operations for catering and corporate and leisure events. He began his career in 2006 as a loan consultant at Equity Consultants LLC, a privately owned mortgage firm in Richfield, Ohio.
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"Right now, the United States imports about 70% of its oil from overseas. At the same time, billions of dollars that we spend on all that foreign oil seems to end up in the bank accounts of those around the world who are openly hostile to American values and our way of life." -Montana Gov. Brian David Schweitzer, speaking at the Democratic Party's national convention in Denver, Colorado.
If there's one shining moment to be plucked from all the political convention hoopla and blather these past few weeks, it's the speech by Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. Now, sure, being a politican and a Democrat, he threw verbal punches at the other party while praising his Presidential candidate (Barack Obama) to the high heavens. Yet he also managed to plant some very bold stakes in the ground about our energy policy in this country - or, more precisely, our total lack of it.
"We face a great new challenge, a world energy crisis that threatens our economy, our security, our climate and our way of life. And until we address that energy crisis, our problems will only get worse," Schweitzer said.
[Brian David Schweitzer, the honerable Governor of Montana.]
"Right now, the United States imports about 70% of its oil from overseas. At the same time, billions of dollars that we spend on all that foreign oil seems to end up in the bank accounts of those around the world who are openly hostile to American values and our way of life," he added. "This costly reliance on fossil fuels threatens America and the world in other ways, too. CO2 emissions are increasing global temperatures, sea levels are rising and storms are getting worse. We need to break America's addiction to foreign oil. We need a new energy system that is clean, green and American-made."
Schweitzer didn't stop there, though - he actually offered SOLUTIONS, of all things! Ones that do NOT hew chapter and verse to party dogma! Imagine!
"In Montana, we're investing in wind farms and we're drilling in the Bakken formation, one of the most promising oil fields in America. We're pursuing coal gasification with carbon sequestration and we're promoting greater energy efficiency in homes and offices," he said. "The single-answer proposition is a dry well, and here's why. America consumes 25% of the world's oil, but has less than 3% of the reserves. You don't need a $2 calculator to figure that one out. There just isn't enough oil in America, on land or offshore, to meet America's full energy needs."
BINGO! About time a politician got on national television and laid out the stark truth for all to see.
Notice, in particular, Montana's multi-faceted approach to energy - wind farms right alongside oil drilling next to conservation. "There's no single platform for energy independence," Schweitzer said. "It's not a question of either wind or clean coal, solar or hydrogen, oil or geothermal. We need them all to create a strong American energy system, a system built on American innovation."
[GM's Chevy Volt -- an electric car with small gasoline motor -- is due to go on sale in 2010 and could really help make a permanent dent in U.S. oil consumption.]
As an aside, he also noted that when he ran for governor of Montana, he chose a Republican - John Bohlinger - to be his lieutenant governor, with a simple proposition: "We could get more done working together than we could fighting," Schweitzer said. "Because Montana really isn't a red state or a blue state. As Senator Obama might put it, we're a united state."
This is important because everyone on Capitol Hill these days seems to have forgotten that they aren't employed by the Democrat or Republican parties - they are employed by AMERICA. So instead of launching vitriolic broadsides over each other, trying to brand the other guy as the Anti-Christ or worse, maybe they should WORK TOGETHER and COMPROMISE so we can get a solid energy policy in place.
One more key factoid Schweitzer shared from the podium in Denver - the most important barrel of oil is the one you don't use. Sure, the Big Three - General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler - are in a world of hurt because of plummeting auto sales, especially among the big iron (pickups and sport utility vehicles) they relied on heavily for years. Yet that's occurring as U.S. consumers switch to smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles - the ones that use less of the black stuff coming from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and the other members of OPEC [the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries].
[Until we formulate an energy policy, OPEC will largely control our energy destiny.]
Notice, too, if you will the giant fall off in the price of oil - nearing $150 a barrel a month ago, it has plummeted to nearly $100 in recent trading. The 13 member-nations of OPEC - which controls 40% of the world's reserves - refused for months to raise production; Saudi Arabia in particular lectured President Bush when he came to ask for an increase in oil supplies. Then, suddenly, OPEC boosted production by 300,000 barrels per day - largely the result of a big drop in demand by the U.S. As Warren Brown, the superb automotive writer for the Washington Post put it; OPEC is a cartel of drug dealers reacting to the news that junkies are going to rehab in droves.
"OPEC is engaging in addiction marketing. It is doing now what it has done before whenever its biggest customers start getting serious about reform. It has increased production, lowered the price and made its drug of choice more accessible -- all in a bid to keep its high-paying customers hooked," Brown said in his Aug. 17 column in the Post.
[The great Warren Brown, automotive editor for the Washington Post newspaper.]
"OPEC knows what the drug dealers know: Addiction is so much more attractive than the hard and often painful work of cleaning up ones act. Affordable addiction is even more attractive. It dulls the senses and corrupts the will to change, to travel a different and ultimately more nationally secure route," he said. "The questions are: Will we fall for OPEC's latest fix? Will we abandon the path toward energy conservation and a more energy-secure nation? Will we sell our nation and our souls for another OPEC high?"
Hopefully, if we listen to the likes of Schweitzer and stay focused as a country - Democrat, Independent and Republican alike - on reducing our reliance on petroleum imports, we'll develop a solid long-term energy policy that'll break our addiction once and for all. That's the dream -- but can we make it reality?


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Feds ask if pot garden poison threat to predator
By JEFF BARNARD
AP Environmental Writer
GRANTS PASS — For the first time, federal biologists are assessing whether illegal marijuana gardens in the back woods of the West could threaten the extinction of a wild animal.
The object of their attention is the fisher, a small but fierce forest predator related to the weasel.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is interested in rat poisons used at the thousands of illegal pot plantations that overlap the fisher's range on national parks, national forests, and Indian reservations. Though only a handful of fisher deaths in California have been blamed directly on the poisons, nearly 80 percent of those examined in one study were found with the poisons in their systems. Scientists think fishers get poisoned from eating rats that eat the poisons, which are spread around young marijuana plants and irrigation systems by the pound.
"We absolutely do have to evaluate the marijuana threat," said J. Scott Yaeger, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Yreka, Calif., who leads the team of scientists doing the Endangered Species Act review. "We need to make that link, or if the information can be discredited, we would do so in this evaluation. My gut feeling is, though, we are going to find a strong link."
Based on their evaluation of existing research, Fish and Wildlife is due to decide whether to list West Coast fishers as a threatened or endangered species by the end of September 2014
The fisher is common across Canada and the Northeast U.S., but not in the West, where fur trapping, logging and the spread of people into the dense forests where it lives have caused numbers to plummet.
Biologists estimate 3,000 to 5,000 remain in California, Oregon and Washington. They make up what is known as a distinct population segment, which qualifies for protection, though healthy populations exist elsewhere.
Up to 3,000 still live in the Klamath Mountains overlapping the Oregon-California border. Studies by the Hoopa Valley Tribe have found female numbers rising, but not males, said tribal biologist Mark Higley.
About 300 are in the southern Sierra Nevada in California, from Yosemite National Park south. A U.S. Forest Service study found their numbers stable.
Smaller populations were introduced on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington and the southern Cascades of Oregon.
The fisher was formally classified in 2004 as a candidate species, likely worthy of protection. After conservation groups sued, Fish and Wildlife agreed to a timetable for evaluating 250 species. The fisher's turn comes just as evidence has been building of poisonings from pot plantations.
The National Marijuana Initiative, part of the war on drugs, has provided researchers with maps of pot busts in Northern California and Yosemite showing they overlap the range of poisoned fishers, said director Tommy LaNier. He has briefed White House Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske.
LaNier said since the 1990s, when California and Oregon legalized medical marijuana, the bulk of the backwoods pot gardens are planted by growers from Mexico, though there is little evidence of a connection to the big drug cartels. Law enforcement has been weeding them out, but only about 2 percent get cleaned up, leaving thousands of backwoods toxic waste dumps.
The initiative is working with Mourad Gabriel, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory and president of the Integral Ecology Research Center in Blue Lake, Calif., who was lead author on a study published last year that established fishers were getting poisoned. The study found 46 of 58 dead fishers sampled from the southern Sierras and Northern California — 79 percent — carried one or more of the rat poisons, including a female that passed it on to her babies through her milk. The first was found in 2009 on the Sierra National Forest just south of Yosemite.
"It just looked like it died in its sleep," said Gabriel. "We brought it in and found a massive amount of bleeding throughout all the cavities."
Tissue tests showed large amounts of poisons known as secondary anticoagulant rodenticides, the compounds used in commercial rat poisons.
Necropsies determined that of the 46 dead fishers carrying rat poison, four of them died from the chemicals. After the study concluded, researchers determined that two more fishers from Northern California had died from rat poison.
All the dead fishers were found because they carried GPS tracking collars that sent out a death alarm.
"It would not be farfetched to think that non-monitored fishers are also being exposed and poisoned as well," Gabriel said.
Yaeger said rat poisons have also been found in fishers in Washington, but it is not known if they picked it up in British Columbia before being relocated.
Gabriel said researchers in his study looked for rat poisons around remote cabins and campgrounds, power pole rights-of-way, and private timber plantations. The only places they found them — as much as 90 pounds at one site — were illegal marijuana gardens.
An EPA assessment says the poisons have also been found in endangered San Joaquin kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, owls, hawks, eagles, crows, squirrels, raccoons, and deer.
"If this continues, I don't think this will be the only species" considered for protection due to illegal pot plantations, Gabriel said.


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Quite a week for EA. First, it was voted the worst company in America by voters to the Consumerist - polls being one of those fairly weightless but cathartic systems the Internet has embraced to increase user engagement*. A day later, it has released a press release announcing that one of the main probable causes of voting on that poll - the ongoing controversy over the ending of Mass Effect 3, released in March by its subsidiary BioWare - is being addressed.
The line from BioWare is that this is largely a reallocation of priorities, to address fan demands for closure, while preserving the creative vision of the original game. According to Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of Mass Effect 3 and the target of much of the fan ire - so much so that a conspiracy theory evolved that the ending was created by him without input from the full writing team:
We have reprioritized our post-launch development efforts to provide the fans who want more closure with even more context and clarity to the ending of the game, in a way that will feel more personalized for each player.
Or, to put it another way, the game's hero Commander Shepard is in all probability still meeting the same end (or ends), but there will be an attempt to answer some of the questions raised around that end - what is [spoiler] doing on [spoiler], why does [spoiler] [spoiler] and what is it with those [spoiler]s and their [spoiler]?
Personally, I am hoping that it will also introduce more backstory on the final antagonist of the game, perhaps adding an entire glowing family.
[UPDATE: BioWare have added more detail on their blog, confirming that the ending will not change. So, much as I expected. No news on the possibility of a Catalyst Family spin-off. I also exchanged emails with an EA publicist, who told me, not hugely surprisingly, that they had no further comment at this time.]
The timing of the announcement is telling - as a side benefit, it slashes the sails of much of the commentary around the Consumerist poll, but more importantly it heads off the risk of fan activism during BioWare's presentation at the PAX East convention. BioWare now have some months of grace, and the protests centred around the "Retake Mass Effect 3" Facebook page and web presence will perforce subside. When the DLC is released, for free, attempts to kickstart another fan revolt will seem progressively more - that word again - entitled. This is assuming, at least, that the DLC is seen to make good-faith attempts to harmonise the ending as it was given with the negative response to it among those vocal communities.
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Not all is sweetness and light, of course - there will inevitably be holdouts advocating for their favoured resolution to the adventure. And, although the ending of a video game has been stealing the limelight, there are other issues EA should probably be thinking about - the use of DRM in its Origin download store, sporadic reports of users locked out of its forums also being unable to access their purchased games, and its sales strategy in general, where a large company founded on the boxed-product model is adjusting to a new world of social games, digital downloads and micropayments.
For all the jubilation this announcement may occasion, this is actually one of the easiest and least impactful changes a company could make - the only cost being the hours and expense of creating the content, and the hit taken by releasing it for free. If it can swing EA back into the PR ascendant against its traditional rival, Activision, this will be a fine price.
There is no way EA can please all the people all of the time - and, for a long time, it was favoured by the same sort of fan antipathy being directed at Activision and in particular Activision's CEO Bobby Kotick. Activision have had a fairly easy ride recently, even when introducing Skylanders, a game based around a marketing strategy any company would probably have killed to have created, and announcing a real-money store for items in its upcoming Diablo 3. Neither of these companies, the US' two great publishing "big beasts", can be as blamelessly obedient to the will of the fans as one might like - it would be simply uncompetitive. But there is a case to be made for working out how best your consumers like to be monetised, and following those strategies.
This announcement does not mean that EA is the best company in America, any more than an Internet poll meant that it was the worst. In the battle for hearts and minds, though, it could be a valuable step.
The full press release can be read here.
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Bloomberg, which competes with Thomson Reuters Corp, the parent of Reuters News, said it had stopped the practice last month after Goldman Sachs Group Inc complained.
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Jill Vardy, a spokeswoman for the Bank of Canada, said the central bank has been in contact with Bloomberg regarding the issue but had no further comment.
Closely held Bloomberg gets the bulk of its revenue from terminal sales to financial institutions. It has more than 315,000 terminal subscribers globally, with each Bloomberg terminal costing more than $20,000 a year. Last year it posted revenue of $7.9 billion.
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"THE HISTORICAL KEYBOARD SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA is a United States-based non-profit organization comprised of members who love and promote early keyboard instruments like those pictured here, and the music written for them.
Formed in 2012 by the merger of the Midwestern Historical Keyboard Society (MHKS) and the Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society (SEHKS), its members include instrument builders, players, teachers, and scholars, as well as many who merely love the looks and sounds of these beautiful instruments.
HKSNA also sponsors an international harpsichord performance competition for young performers (the Mae and Irving Jurow International Harpsichord Competition) and a composition competition, promoting new music for early keyboard instruments (the Aliénor International Harpsichord Composition Competition). Many members also attend our Annual Meeting/Conference, held in the spring of each year in various locations around the USA. These exciting events feature concerts, lectures, scholarly paper readings, and exhibits of scores, books, recordings, and beautiful early keyboard instruments, as well as much convivial collegiality."
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"earlymusica is a site devoted to early music events administered by Micaela Schmitz of Early Music in the Vale. ..."
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""Il Canto delle Muse" is a non-profit cultural assosiation based in Rovigo (Italy); its aim is to promote musical and artistic activities in collaborations with public administration and privates, in order to spread knowledge of XVI, XVII and XVIII music, with the help of renown team of professional in the cultural and musical field. The association organizes activities such as courses, Masterclasses, internships, musical laboratories and schools, concerts, music festivals, opera productions and cultural events in addition to the production of documentary material (musical transcriptions, lecture verbals, musical studies, CDs, DVDs…). ..."
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"Early Music DC is your source for information about upcoming early music and baroque concerts in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
Early Music DC provides information about upcoming early music performances in the Washington, DC area."
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WHAT DOES Huismuziek do?
- Offers a variety of courses each year; 40 music courses with 1000 students! for young and old, beginners and advanced students of classical music, early music, world music, light music and customed arrangements by our teachers. These courses are about playing together.
- Allows member access to the Players Contact Bank , the Teachers Contact Bank and Musicians Bulletin Board . (Click here for more information about memberships).
- Allows Access to the Huismuziek Music Library that houses up to 8000 polyphonic music pieces. Members can borrow music against expenses (postage), but non-members can also borrow music from the library.
- Publishes the Huismuziek Newsletter, which is published twice a year, is packed with information on such matters as courses, teachers and ensemble events.
- Publishes the Huismuziek E-News; our monthly newsletter containing date information of the courses, ensemble projects and tips for the amateur musicians and singers.
- Publishes the 250 Music Annex (sheet music) that appears in each issue of the journal. This music is copyright free and free for download/print for members.
- Offers a discount for instrument insurance to Huismuziek members from the insurance company Zicht BV (ex Zuidstaete)..
- There are 25 independent regional Huismuziek associations across the country. Each "department" are connected ensembles, varying in shape and composition. Membership in a regional association is independent of the national membership.
- Contact Builder, is an important part of Huismuziek. The "Contact Builder" lists about 600 amateur builders, their knowledge and experience about building, sharing of their knowledge of maintaining and repairing musical instruments, and has its own building in Arnhem. Contact Builder organizes six annual building workshops. Contact Builder members information is published four times a year through the Construction Letter.
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"Founded in 2009 by Artistic Director Jessica Gould as an alternative to the conventional concert hall, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts offers the special chance to hear acclaimed artists performing pre-Romantic music in intimate venues that complement the historical context of the repertoire. We present compositions intended for the domestic salon in the Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium of the Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden, built in 1799, where Salon/Sanctuary is the concert series in residence. Sacred music is performed in sanctuaries appropriate to the religious context of the music. …"
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"The Manitoba Early Music Festival, Inc. was founded on July 18th 2012. Since then, we have produced shows with an early multi-arts trio, Damsel & Swains. We are planning to produce a full scale 3-day festival in Saint-Norbert, Manitoba, in the Fall of 2015 in partnership with other organizations and artists. Artistic fields included will be visual, dance, music, and theatre.
We are a new registered non-for-profit art organization in Winnipeg : The Manitoba Early Music & Arts Festival,
Incorporated. Our mission is to offer the Winnipeg public access to their historical roots in medieval,
renaissance, and baroque times. Using the arts as an educational tool to reconnect the public with these ancient
roots, we hope to help them figure out which direction we would like to take in our cultural development together.
We would love to include artists from our First Nations communities as well, as they did exist back in what we
call medieval times.
To hire local artists and personalities for our events is very important to us. The Manitoba Early Music & Arts
Festival, Inc. has only been in business since 2012. We do not have paid staff. All our work is done by a board of
5 dedicated members : Heather Ann Dixon (lawyer), Daniel Donahue (recording producer), James Maiello
(university professor - University of Manitoba), Julie Mongeon-Ferré (Bureau de l'éducation française - Education
Manitoba), and Josée Vaillancourt (stage artist, freelance teacher-administrator-organizer-etc.) ..."
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"Association Ensemble 900 is a well established activity around the regional, interregional and national culture.
In fact, it is often involved on the organization of major events, in favour of the cultural heritage of our region and the dissemination of it in a national field.
Ensemble900 for the first time in Abruzzo, held a luthery workshop taking the important international school "Antonio Stradivari" of Cremona in the region. Some years after led another event: two first absolute musical executions of the famous Roman composer Sylvano Bussotti with a live record at the Teatro Comunale in Atri.
Ensemble' 900 combines the live musical events with a musical research and protection: not only a concert but an interactive relationship with the public.
For over ten years, Ensemble900 is dedicated to the Organization of the International Festival of ancient music "Seicentonovecento" with vintage instruments of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, with important awards at a national level:
- Medal from the Italian President of the Republic C.A. Ciampi on 12th of May 2005;
- Two silver plates from the Italian President of the Republic G.Napolitano on 2007-2008;
- Silver plate from the Presidency of the Council (F. Marini) on 2008;
- Honorable Mention from the Italian President of the Republic G.Napolitano on May 2009.
This manifestation has an high historic and musicologic relevance, often using historical organs and instruments found within theinstrumental panorama of our region. The on-site festival combines the rediscovery of the palaces, churches and the ancient crafts from the 500th."
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" … As the only presenter in the entire state that focuses exclusively on historically informed, period instrument performances of Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque music, EMN aims to ensure the continued vitality of the arts in Wisconsin. Other presenters may offer some early music programs, short-term festivals, or modern-instrument adaptations of this special repertoire. But no other presenter carries this banner consistently, or maintains EMN's intense and exclusive focus on early music. …"
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"The Associazione Hendel* is a non-profit organization that seeks to combine musicological thinking with practical performance projects of Handel's music. We are presently supporting an ambitious recording and performance project by the Italian orchestra La Risonanza to perform and record all of Handel's cantate con strumenti (i.e. the cantatas accompanied by continuo and additional instruments) dating from the composer's time working across Italy. In co-operation with the Spanish early music label Glossa, we aim to complete the project before the end of 2009, the 250th anniversary of Handel's death. Such a project has never been envisaged before, and has so far been met with enormous critical success. .."
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"The American Nyckelharpa Association is a non-profit corporation for the preservation and fostering of the nyckelharpa (sometimes called the Swedish Key Fiddle). We will conduct educational programs and activities to promote knowledge of and interest in the nyckelharpa and the traditional music of the nyckelharpa. We shall endeavor to provide competent instruction in playing the nyckelharpa, in the traditional music, and in the traditional dance associated with the music."
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" OPERA America is dedicated to supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
OPERA America draws on resources and expertise from within and beyond the opera field to advance a mutually-beneficial agenda that serves and strengthens the field through programs in the following categories:
- * Creation: Artistic services that help artists and companies increase the creativity and excellence of opera productions, especially North American works;
- * Presentation: Opera company services that address the specific needs of staff, trustees and volunteers;
- * Enjoyment: Education, audience development and community services that increase all forms of opera appreciation.
The association provides members with an array of publications and online resources, regional workshops, an annual conference and network-specific services such as conference calls, e-mail listservs and direct contact with staff with expertise in opera production, administration and education. OPERA America provides members with tools to maximize the effectiveness of financial and human resources, expand the scope of repertoire and programs, and extend their reach to new and diverse audiences.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America has an international membership that includes nearly 150 Professional Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and over 16,000 subscribers to its electronic news service. "
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"Welcome to the award-winning National Centre for Early Music - a centre of excellence for music making of all kinds - and an established conference and recording venue.
Image of the National Centre for Early Music Interior: Click to ZoomThe National Centre for Early Music, situated in St Margaret's Church York, is the home of the internationally renowned York Early Music Festival and the Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival. The Centre also attracts some of the world's finest artists in the fields of jazz, folk and world music.
The National Centre for Early Music is a high-tech, modern facility based within an historical setting. It runs a year-round community and education programme and offers first-class conference and recording facilities. " (See site for various programs such as Festivals; concert series etc. ... ed.)
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"La Fundación Camerata de Caracas is a non-profit institution whose mission is to bring all the groups that make up a high level of artistic excellence, to educate all those involved in its activities through a new experience and a wide cultural activity and comprehensive education of music students specializing in international early music and of Latin America. …"
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"THE LUTE SOCIETY, founded in 1956, exists to promote the lute and its music. Even if you can't make it to our meetings and recitals in London, joining the Lute Society is an excellent way of building up your music library, and of keeping in touch with news in the Lute world. We are happy to retail our publications to non-members. The Society currently has around 730 members (2006, May). " See website for more information. (ed.)
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"Designed to highlight the opening events of New York City artists and presenters specializing in historically informed performance (aka 'early music"), Celebration '07 will encompass a six week period in the fall, a veritable cornucopia of activity spanning the gamut from medieval to classical repertoire, performed by individual artists to baroque orchestras, in chamber concerts to symposia, including professional, recreational and educational events. " ...
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"The Renaissance Society was founded in 1944 to promote the understanding and appreciation of plainchant, Renaissance polyphony and other types of vocal and instrumental music from the period. The founder was Michael Howard who was later to achieve distinction as the Organist and Master of the Choristers at Ely cathedral before holding other prestigious posts in the musical world.
The Renaissance Singers was formed at the same time as the performing arm of the Society, and apart from a period of silence in the 1980s has maintained an impressive schedule of concerts. Many recordings have been made-the last in February 1998.
The success of the Singers is evidenced by the detailed and fascinating archive dating from July 1944, but it took 55 years for a wider role for the Society to emerge.
In 1999 Saeculum was launched as a festival of early music and is the first major activity undertaken by the Society other than the running of the Renaissance Singers. The immediate success of Saeculum meant that in 2000 the scope was broadened beyond the running of a single annual weekend event and now Saeculum events take place throughout the year. They include cultural events beyond the staging concerts and include workshops for musicians and the appreciation of wine and art. …"
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"… The Bach Society was founded at Christ the King Lutheran Church under the initial leadership of Carroll and Dorry Shaddock, inspired by the example of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan, which presented cantatas on a weekly basis at Sunday evening vespers services. Dr. Robert Lynn, professor of musicology at the University of Houston (now emeritus), was engaged as Music Director, and together they worked to establish an ensemble which reflected the latest research and scholarship of historically-informed performance practice. A series of Bach Vespers was the Society's first offering; the response of the public was overwhelming, and attendance remained at capacity over the years as the number of presentations steadily increased. …"
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"The Collegium Pro Musica Association has its premises in the city of Genoa and promotes activities aimed to regenerate and enliven the art and culture, with particular reference to the classical and ancient music.
Since 1990 until now, the artistic direction of the Collegium Pro Musica distinguished itself for having supervised the artistic coordination of many concert events. As far as its first years of activity are concerned, we can mention: Musica Antica nei Chiostri (Ancient Music in cloisters, Genoa, 1990), the baroque music section of The International Festival of Baroque Arts (Rome, Genoa and Siracusa, 1991) and the classical music section of the Mediterranean Festival (Genoa, 1992, 1993 and 1994). In 1993, the Association has finally been founded and from that time on, it has fully managed both the organizational and the artistic aspects of the events promoted.
The International Festival of Chamber Music (formerly named as "I Concerti dell'Ateneo" and then "Genova Musica Antica") is the concert event that the Collegium Pro Musica Association has been promoting for many years: launched in 1994, dedicated to the great chamber music with a special predilection for the baroque and classical repertoire, it is the most important summer event of classical music in Genoa. Since the 2000, the Festival takes place also in the town of Savona. …"
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"The mission of the Handel and Haydn Society is to perform Baroque and Classical music for chorus and period-instrument orchestra at the highest level of artistic achievement. Founded as a choral society in 1815 by a group of Boston merchants, Handel and Haydn is among the oldest continuously performing arts organizations in the country. From its earliest years, the Society established a tradition of innovation, performing the American premieres of Handel's Messiah in 1818, Haydn's Creation in 1819, Verdi's Requiem in 1878, and Bach's B Minor Mass in 1887. The Society began performing Handel's Messiah annually in 1854. Throughout its history the Handel and Haydn Society has brought the world's most beautiful music and its greatest artists to local audiences, setting a standard for orchestral and choral performances that remains unparalleled. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, just off NYC's famous Lincoln Square, invites you to engage in the unique historic experience of hearing full Bach cantatas in the setting for which they were written. Each Sunday through the end of April, 2012, cantatas will be rendered on their appropriate liturgical Sundays following the practice of J.S. Bach himself in 18th Century Leipzig. These candlelit vespers services also feature organ works, choral motets, chamber music and exciting hymn singing with the renowned Bach Choir and Bach Players on period instruments under the direction of Cantor Rick Erickson. The assembly gathering each week is a diverse community of people in age, lifestyle, sexual orientation, religious affiliation and nationality. All are welcome. Bach Vespers requests a free-will offering during the service and encourages everyone to give generously. Annual contributions and weekly offerings fully support this series and its team of professional artists. "
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"Early Music West Midlands is a consortium of promoters and performers committed to supporting and advocating medieval, baroque and early classical music, particularly through historically authentic performance.
EMWM produces a regular diary of events with details of performances and workshops throughout the region. We also offer advice and support to local music promoters and work to increase audiences for early music, through our mailing list promotions, and presenting performances at events such as ArtsFest in Birmingham. We are also working on education projects to introduce children and young people to early music. " ...
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"NFA Core Values
- Honors, values, and respects the contributions of all members equally.
- Promotes collegiality and embodies integrity.
- Draws strength from our local roots and provides meaningful benefits.
- Promotes flute performance, pedagogy, and development by providing a forum for the exchange of ideas.
- Enriches the repertoire for the flute through commissioning, special publications, and related activities.
- Inspires and cultivates personal, professional, and artistic excellence.
- More than 6,000 members, from all 50 states and 50 countries
- Thirty-six conventions and counting
- NFAMusic Library—the largest lending library of flutemusic in the world, where NFA members have access to a collection of more than 15,000 works
- Networking of flutists and exhibitors for more than 36 years
- Cultural outreach scholarships in 15 cities
- Extensivemusic commissioning activities, including new works annually for the Young Artist and High School Soloists and biennially for the Piccolo Artist competitions
- Liaison with more than 200 U.S. flute clubs"
The NFA does include early flute in their support list.
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"The Hungarian Haydn Society was formed at the end of 1996 on the initiative of the excellent concert organizer Kálmán Strém, who until his death in 2005 devoted himself to the cause of creating world-class concert life at Eszterháza (the present-day Esterházy palace at Fertőd). For this reason the Society's first and most important act was to establish the "Haydn at Eszterháza" festival, which has been held every September since 1998 and has won serious international recognition. ... " Visit website for more information. (ed.)
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"The AMS South-Central chapter includes the states of Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Members include professors, independent scholars, students, and those who love music history. If you are a member of the national American Musicological Society and live within the zip codes of our area (as determined by the national office), you are a member of our chapter. All are welcome to attend the annual chapter meetings.
The date for our Spring 2012 meeting, which will be held at Union University, is March 2-3. Please see link at left for the Call for Papers. Our keynote speaker will be David Huron, who heads the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology laboratory at Ohio State. Our conference will also feature a performance (open to the public) by the Orchid Ensemble. We look forward to seeing you there; registration information will be added to this page in the spring.."
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In May 2013, the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) unveiled the first phase of its citywide wayfinding system. Encouraging people to walk, bike and ride public transit, the goal of the system is to provide consistent, official, in situ information that supports and empowers New York's locals and visitors as everyone navigates, understands and explores more of the city.The design consortium, trading as PentaCityGroup (PCG), comprises wayfinding specialists City ID as lead designer with industrial designers Billings Jackson Design, graphic designers Pentagram, RBA Group providing engineering, urban design and project management and T-Kartor, GIS database developers and cartographers.
The project, designed by PentaCityGroup (PCG), is a benchmark for other global cities. The map-based information system takes to New York City streets, both as a network of street signs, guiding pedestrians between and around neighborhoods, and at every Citi Bike station, helping riders using New York's new bike share program to plan their trips.
PCG is now working with NYC DOT, New York City Transit, NYC&Co, the city's Business Improvement Districts and other partners to expand the system. The team is extending the system into new print, mobile and other digital media applications, and integrating information about other transit modes. The latest phase has launched a first for New York City. The Select Bus Service product brings real-time bus information to passengers providing map-based pedestrian information for those leaving the bus and improved transit information for those choosing to board.
The first map-based signs for pedestrians have been installed across the city in varying environments. Moving into its third phase, the network of these pedestrian signs will extend to cover much of downtown and midtown Manhattan before the end of this year. The system maps also feature on every Citi Bike station and will be installed on the B44 Select Bus Service route.


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DOVER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who spent some good cheddar on a burger faces charges after allegedly throwing a tantrum because his order included cheese.
Police in York County say 35-year-old Sean Varone knocked over a trash can, threw a high chair and assaulted an employee at a Springettsbury Township McDonald's last week.
The York Dispatch reports that Varone, of Dover Township, is also accused of grabbing an employee's cellphone as she tried to call 911 and chucking it across the parking lot before fleeing.
A criminal complaint was filed against Varone on Tuesday. Court records don't list an attorney for him and a phone listing couldn't immediately be located Wednesday.
Information from: The York Dispatch, http://www.yorkdispatch.com


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Rally takes place at 7:30 p.m.
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Rally takes place at 7:30 p.m.
Community leaders are planning a peace vigil in a Cincinnati neighborhood after two recent slayings there.
The "call for peace" candlelight vigil is set for Monday night in Kennedy Heights.
Community groups, clergy and police representatives are expected to have a presence, along with family and friends of the two men killed last month.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that 52-year-old Christopher Burroughs was fatally shot Wednesday night. Earlier last month, 22-year-old Dominique Hall was shot and killed in the same area.
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David Robertson spent of most of his college days as what he would describe as "undecided" -- but not about his major. He never categorized himself as gay or straight, and continues to defy categorization. However, he had to learn the hard way -- through an HIV diagnosis -- that you can't judge whether someone is HIV positive or HIV negative by whether or not they look healthy.
David saw no option but to live a life of hope, after he saw his older brother all but give up on his health after his own HIV diagnosis. Not wanting to live anyone's stereotype, he began to take better care of his body and became a mentor to other young men of color -- both HIV negative and HIV positive. A deep soul with deep thoughts, David took some time to tell us about the stigma around being a black man with HIV, how dating HIV-negative people requires education and how important it is to choose to live.
This interview was conducted in November 2011.
Let's start from the beginning. When did you find out that you were positive?
June 19, 2007, at 12:34 p.m.
What prompted you to get tested?
Routine. New job. I liked the sound of a PPO instead of an HMO. With my doctor, we had to do routine blood work. At that time, I was going to a chiropractor. And the chiropractor was telling me that I had some swollen lymph nodes. Me, thinking two things: I had just had two teeth removed, so I was, like, oh; it's something, probably ... you know, it's flushing out something that my antibiotics would take care of. Two, it was me traveling a whole lot. So I thought that it was probably my body stressing. I didn't think it was anything serious.
I remember my doctor asking me the questions. You know, "Do you know anyone who has HIV?" I explained to her, "Yes." Previously, my brother was diagnosed, in 2005. My aunt passed away around that time of cancer, related to her AIDS diagnosis. Nothing really clicked.
Because you just didn't think you were at risk.
Oh, no. I wasn't. I mean, where's the mirror check? I thought I was invincible. Yeah. That was the diagnosis.
And so when you got tested and you got the results back, what were you ...?
My immediate reaction: I started laughing. It was that nervous laughter. And then I heard myself laughing, but I'm looking at my physician's face. And she's looking at me. And this look, her look, went from being kind of nervous to very emphatic. Because I think she kind of realized, like, whoa; he didn't expect this news.
Just hearing those words, I think, did something that could never be given back to me, this tripping I felt, just, immediately. It was like I felt like I got that scarlet letter on my chest. Not Superman.
So you didn't think you were at risk. But you were in; at the time you were in what you thought was a monogamous, committed relationship? Or, what do you think happened?
No. I mean, just the people that I had sex with. I mean, we were in college. We all come from decent family structures, and we're all attractive. There's no apparent physical ailments, no lesions, like I saw in Philadelphia. They didn't look like someone who was emaciated, from Africa. They didn't look like they were shooting up drugs.
So all of these things that you thought HIV looked like: These people didn't look like that.
No, they were fine.
So you just thought, Well, then, I'm not at risk.
I had even more of a thought. I thought I knew. I was invincible. I had this invincible characteristic that ... mmm, you smell good, taste good, you feel good, and you look real good; you are all good.
And so what was that like, when you just, kind of, left the doctor?
I went through a lot of emotions. I called my mom. And the first thing my mom said to me -- you know, we'd dealt with this already, my brother's diagnosis -- she was very quick with me but she said, "Dave, I've got one question to ask you, because I'm at work. Do you want to live or do you want to die?"
That kind of threw me for a loop because I'm the baby of the family. I'm expecting for my mama to be, like, "I'll be right there. I got my breast milk waiting for you." No.
So I told her, "Mom, I want to live." I don't want for what happened to my brother, and how it affected my family nucleus, to do it again. I just; I knew. I saw. I felt. I dealt with. That's one of the main reasons why I know it pushed me more to my contraction ... just the feeling of, the stigma feeling -- the concept of me not feeling wanted. That was internalized.
And I just remember, after I got off the phone with my mom, there was something in me, purpose, wanted to live. But I didn't want to live. And I walked into the middle of the street. I was going to be hit by a taxi. The taxi drove around me. Went down the street by my house, this little neighborhood, little joint, restaurant/bar. I got pissy drunk. I walked out. I'm feeling good. Lit. Real lit. Bummed a cigarette.
My first inhale, it hit me again. Yeah, you drunk, bruh, but you still have HIV. I called my dealer at the time and I'm like, "Man. I'm having a really, really bad day. Will you give me X, Y and Z." Met me at my house. My thought was, "Well, if I can't take my life by getting hit by a taxi, I can't overdose on liquor; I'm going to jump off my balcony."
I got high. Did a couple of bumps. Did my whole name. I went to jump off ... because anyone who's been on drugs may know a thing called tweaking: I tweaked. And I was going to jump off. Bird, wind, concoction, or whatever ... I freaked out, flipped back. I felt a sense of dying that day, and I thought that that sense was something that I had to manifest myself, rather than me realize that that was my pride, that was my invincibility, dying. That I wasn't invincible. That I wasn't. I got that mark on me, but it wasn't the Superman mark; it was the "You're Human" mark.
What did that next day look like, then? If you were, like, "OK; I'm not going to kill myself"? Or not that next day, but then, that period kind of after that time?
The first 30 days were difficult for me. I didn't know what to do. I had told certain friends. Certain friends just stopped answering my text messages.
And how old were you?
So you were young.
Yeah. Everyone who I used to party with: it was like they knew something was wrong. They didn't know what was wrong. But everyone just kind of left me. They abandoned me. I felt abandoned. And I think, in that silence, I kind of realized that everyone around me that left me was only there seasonally. It's the whole attribute of, when it's good everyone's around; when it's bad no one's around. And I literally had that, that feeling of, Wow, now that I lost everything (or what I thought -- I lost everything) no one was there to kind of give me a ride. No one was there to kind of buy me a round of drinks. It was difficult.
My only strength at that time was to show my family that this disease was not going to take another black man in my family. I remember just seeing the look on my mom and my sister's faces, looking at my brother. And it's something: being a fly on the wall, and then being, no longer the fly on the wall, but being that object that used to be the fly on the wall looking at that object. And I became that object.
I had a choice. Was I going to be a statistic with another statistic? Or was I going to be a statistic connected to hope? And, yeah.
So, talk to me about your brother and his diagnosis. I've interviewed you before. And I know that you had kind of felt like your brother had given up. And you didn't want to give up.
His history is like many other people's stories. It's hard. I think the stigma is hard, especially for men who are not MSM, for men who are not IV users, for men who ... I mean, the biggest issue my brother had at that time -- I don't know what he's doing right now, particularly everything, but I know he has no sex drive -- but he was addicted to sex. And for him that was his downfall. He loved having sex with females. It was a gratification of the wanting. You know, everyone wants that. It's human nature to want that physical touch.
I think that you're not a man anymore to some people if you have HIV because, you know, you can't do what a man can do. And I think that, in his mind, he became less of a man now that he couldn't enjoy the participation of ... barebacking.
... the things he was doing. Yeah.
It's that kinetic touch; it's that feeling. And I think it's like he lost the lighter with his cigarette. It was aimless. And I don't think that he really knew how to reinvent himself.
There are some people -- and I realize, for my brother -- it has nothing to do with the present. It's most to do with the past. But he didn't want to do any reflection. He's definitely not the mirror guy; never wanted to look in the mirror. And I understand that.
So looking at my brother: he reminds me of a diamond. Because he's covered with coal, but at the core there's a good part in him. And the good part of him is -- he's very silent when it comes down to me talking -- but I know that's the resilience of him just trying to keep on. Because it's like someone who needs help but, instead of asking for help, they just stand and look at you and think that you can read your mind. And that's because he lost his voice. He lost his ... his ability to be man enough to say, "I need help."
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By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a convoy carrying Qatari officials through the center of Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday, killing at least eight Somalis, officials said.
The visiting delegation of Qataris, who were traveling in the Somali interior minister's bullet-proof vehicle, were "safe", a security officer told Reuters, without going into further detail. The minister was not in the car at the time.
The Islamist rebel group al Shabaab said it was behind the attack and threatened further strikes against Somalia's government, which it called a "puppet" of Western powers.
"More explosions are on the way," al Shabaab's military spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab told Reuters by telephone.
The al Qaeda-linked rebels, who want to impose their version of Islamic law or sharia on the country, have kept up a campaign of guerrilla-style attacks since African peacekeepers pushed them out of bases in the city and other major towns.
Western powers, long worried Somalia is a launch pad for militant Islam in east Africa and beyond, fear it could slide back into chaos if security forces cannot cement security gains.
The blast tore through the busy 'Kilometre 4' road junction in the center of Mogadishu's commercial and administrative district, hurling metal debris over a wide area. Nearby buildings were blackened and power cables hung loose from poles.
It was not clear in the confusion that followed the blast how many people had been killed. A coordinator for Mogadishu's emergency services said ambulances had carried away the 15 bodies.
Earlier, the chairman of the city's Hodan district, where the attack took place, told reporters at the blast site eight people had died.
"A silver 4x4 sped around the roundabout blaring its horn as it chased the convoy," college student Abdullahi Ismail told Reuters at the scene, nursing a gash in his forehead. "It hit the last car in the convoy."
Qatar has been forging closer political ties with Somalia in recent years as it seeks to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa region.
Sunday's bomb was a stark reminder of two decades of civil strife in a country where the central government depends heavily on a near 18,000-strong African peacekeeping force for its survival.
While there has been a significant improvement in the coastal capital since African Union troops drove the Islamist al Shabaab group out of the city in 2011, the attack showed the relative ease with which the militants can still strike.
Parts of Mogadishu were in lock-down last week after security officials received a tip-off about an imminent attack, but security was relaxed on Saturday.
The 'Kilometre 4' intersection connects the city's fortified airport, where the United Kingdom opened an embassy on April 25, with the presidential palace, parliament and other ministries.
The state of Somalia's security forces will top the agenda at conference in London on May 7. Britain and Somalia are hoping to use the event to drum up more international support at a time when al Shabaab are weakened as a fighting force but can still inflict devastating strikes.
Civil war after the fall of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 left Somalia without effective central government and awash with weapons. The turmoil opened the doors for piracy to flourish in the Gulf of Aden and deeper into the Indian Ocean.
(Writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Andrew Heavens)